[1] In this episode, Bart makes money selling T-shirts, so a jealous Homer decides to support Lisa's science fair project.
Homer helps Lisa ensure her project's victory by stealing plutonium from the power plant and using it to make her reactor fully operational.
Happy to be back to their respective roles as father and son, Homer and Bart go to the dump to dispose of the nuclear reactor together.
He gives his toys a Viking funeral, and the Sea Captain quotes Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay".
[2] The designs on Krusty's T-shirt line include Itchy dressed as Austin Powers, SpongeBob SquarePants, and a Confederate, and Scratchy modeled after Osama bin Laden.
Lisa's model of science history contains displays of scientists Marie Curie, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Albert Einstein.
Goose Gladwell looks similar to Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and he sells the rights to Bart's shirts to The Walt Disney Company.
[3] ReviewStream wrote that "only the Simpsons can combine a Willy Wonka look-a-like[sic], a Robert Frost poem, and a Viking funeral all into one episode.
"[4] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide liked the beginning with Bart selling T-shirts but did not enjoy the episode becoming a Willy Wonka parody.